What a day! I grabbed my pass, and headed out to E3! the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The annual videogame industry trade show at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

I was all excited... I was going to see software publishers, hobbyists, console manufacturers like Microsoft, Xbox, PS2 and GameCube, Nintendo's GameBoy Advance SP, Sony's PSP, and Nokia's new N-Gage handheld.

But guess what dumb-ass?

Doesn't start till today! I just wasted all this time finding parking, walking and then this? There was still stuff to see... as is my way I was able to talk my way in... BadBoy, me!

I saw displays for Enter the Matrix (Atari), The Hulk (Universal), X2: Wolverine's Revenge (Activision), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Atari), Bad Boys 2 (Empire), The Fast and the Furious (Universal), Pirates of the Caribbean (Bethesda Softworks), James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Electronic Arts), Alias (Acclaim), Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction (Fox), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Electronic Arts), The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring (Universal), American Idol (Codemasters), Charlie's Angels (UbiSoft), The Great Escape (Gotham), Tron 2.0 (Disney) and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (LucasArts).

I was told Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Clancy were there practicing their lines for their appearance in their booth shows. Arnold Schwarzenegger, presidential fitness adviser, took time away from talking about the Bush administration's plan to cut $400 million in after-school spending. He runs a national after-school foundation.

From what I gathered from snooping around, Broadband seemed to be the "thing" being pushed hard. Sony Online with EverQuest II, Microsoft with Mythica, NC Soft, JC Entertainment and...

then me with finally, a Parking Violation.

A nice sucky way to end a convention.

While standing there staring at my ticket, a homeless man asks me for money... Little does he realize... How close I am to living in my car.

He smiled and said, "Yep, I used to get those." (parking tickets)

I came home and read an e-mail from a gal who was once my intern at a radio station and now works for Disney Animation. It was really nice and she's so cool.

She writes:
..............
We are clutching what may be the remains of 2-D
animation. Next month all the background painters
lose their desks and get G-4's with Photoshop for
painting the next film. And CG people are
pouring in as traditional artists get squeezed out.

Our current 2-D project is Brother Bear, due out Nov. 7th.
I'm working with Robh Ruppel who's Art Directing.
Have you heard of him?

Before I write a novel here I should tell you your stories are
as funny as ever and I remember the good times I had working
for you at KDGE. Atleast it doesn't sound like we have to get
up quite so early now.

Hope you have a good week and I'll catch up with you later.

Kathy
.......

That really picked me up after everything that's happened. I'll have to see if I can dig up the tape of the radio show where we had Kathy Hypnotized into being sexually attracted to me. She got totally undressed and performed on camera before we brought her out of her trance.

Or, wait a minute...

Was I in a trance?

Wait! I was the nude one!

Oh well, it was fun anyway...